THE LYSISTRATA, 1170-1200

So if yc would, go and consult together

And talk it over, each with your allies.
ATII. Allies, says she ! Now my good soul consider :

What do they want, what can they want, but this,

Their wives again ?
LAC. The fient anitlier wiss

Ha' mine, I ween.

ATH. Nor my Carystians" either,

LY. O that is well : so purify yourselves ;

And in the Acropolis well feast you all

On what our cupboards still retain in store.

There, each to other, plight your oath and troth,

Then every man receive his wife again,

And hie off homeward

ATH. That we; will, and quickly.

LAC. Gae on : we'se follow.6
ATH. Ay, as quick as quick."

CH. Gorgeous robes and golden Irinkrts,

Shawls and mantles rich and rare,
I will lend to all who need them,

Lend for youths to wear,
Or if any comrade's daughter

Would the Basket bear/*
One and all 1 here invite you,
Freely of my goods partake,
Nought is sealed so well, but, boldly

Ye the seals may break,
And of all that lurks behind them,

to be one of the pre-Hellenic populations, Thuc. vii. £7. Three
hundred of them were in the service of the Kour Hundred nt Athens,
Time. viii. 69. Probably they were or1 wawige mariners,

& ttirr} <rz> 0A«s.

e Lysistrata and the ambamtatlfirs f/o rn.

* As Kavyfiopoi in lite ftuiathciiaic protse.ssion.

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